When comparing Dropbox vs Flickr, the Slant community recommends Flickr for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform photo backup and viewer service?”Flickr is ranked 3rd while Dropbox is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Flickr is:

Flickr offers 1TB of free storage with no limits on image resolution. This makes for a great place to store ones photos due to the high amount of storage available for free.

Pros

Pro

Easy to use

You can use Dropbox via website, by installing a desktop client that creates a folder that you simply drag and drop files into, or with their mobile app. Everything synchronizes across all devices used and cloud storage. And Dropbox offers easy methods of sharing whatever is within it.

Pro

Up to 18GB of free storage space

Dropbox personal accounts start out free, with 2GB of space, but users can get extra space by recommending the site to friends, or taking part in events like "Dropquest", where users can win extra space by solving puzzles.

Pro

1TB of free storage

Flickr offers 1TB of free storage with no limits on image resolution. This makes for a great place to store ones photos due to the high amount of storage available for free.

Pro

Can be set to auto-upload images

Flickr has an app on Windows, OSX, iOS and Android, called Flickr Uploadr (available for download in the tools section) that can automatically upload images to Flickr. It can even pull images from external drives and other cloud storage services such as iCloud.

Pro

Good search

Flickr is capable of searching images by a combination of content, color, shape, depth of field, style, pattern, size, license and other options.

Pro

Built-in image recognition

Flickr will automatically attempt to figure out the contents of a picture and tag them appropriately. This will allow you to look for, for example, all images of flowers, bridges or butterflies.

Cons

Con

Carousel app shut down

On March 31, 2016 Carousel was shut down as a standalone app, and returned to a single Dropbox photo experience. All photos are safe in Dropbox, but the Carousel app for iOS and Android stopped functioning.

Con

Not a lot of free space

While it's possible to get up to 18GB of free space by jumping through a few hoops, the basic plan starts at just 2GB of free storage.

Con

There are limits on file sizes

Images can't be more than 200MB a piece and each video can't take up more than 1GB of space.